Hawaiian Sun Greets Patriots After Chilly Start

Under sunny skies and on a breezy 75-degree day, Freedom High School musicians played in Honolulu, Hawaii, yesterday.

The musicians escaped the frigid northeastern United States Thursday for the first Aloha Bowl World of Music Festival.

The school's concert band and wind and jazz ensembles competed yesterday afternoon in Kapiolani Park. The park resembles the Hollywood Bowl and is next to the Pacific Ocean. Bands from nine school districts are competing. Results of the competition were not announced last night.

Last evening the Patriot band performed in Aloha Stadium and practiced with other groups for today's bowl parade. Other school bands came from Minnesota, California, Illinois and Hawaii. The Freedom twirlers also performed.

Some bands will be shown during the halftime of the Aloha Bowl football game, but which bands will be seen is not known. In addition to the school bands, many professional musical groups will be in the parade.

Competition winners will be honored during a dinner tonight at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel.

The 54 students and chaperones who caught a plane out of Harrisburg flew into a snowstorm in Chicago. They were delayed two hours and left O'Hare Airport 30 minutes before it was closed because of the weather.

The 196 students and chaperones who flew out of the Newark, N.J., airport were delayed on takeoff for about 1 1/2 hours. A plane carrying Freedom followers was delayed at Kennedy Airport in New York and consequently missed a California connecting flight, resulting in a delayed arrival in Hawaii.